Environment

Global challenges like climate change, drought, flooding, and deforestation are closely tied to economics, politics, and other dimensions of human behavior. This content channel showcases recent research from across UC Berkeley related to both natural and built environments.

A team of UC Berkeley researchers warn that by 2100, climate change will cause rampant starvation and disease in the Sahel, a region in Africa, unless measures are taken to promote agricultural adaptation, family planning, and women’s empowerment.

Was the Hurricane Katrina disaster a failure of engineering or human organizations? UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management seeks new approaches for mitigating the risks of large-scale disasters.